Electronic-Free Gaming [Board Games]

It’s snowing right now, very hard actually, blizzard-like in fact. And I’m off. Yes, I know I’m writing this, but I am in fact off. But first, I need your help. More

Electronic-Free Gaming [Board Games]

It’s snowing right now, very hard actually, blizzard-like in fact. And I’m off. Yes, I know I’m writing this, but I am in fact off. But first, I need your help. More

The Kotaku RSS Feed Two-Step [Reader]

You may have noticed, if you’re reading this through an RSS reader, that we’re not all quite there anymore. Have no fears, there is a solution. More

My Trash-80 Powered Gaming Roots [Pic Or It Didn't Happen]

It’s easy to post pictures of your current gaming rig , your oodles of games, to brag about achievements and trophies, but none of that means a thing. True gamers have roots and I want to see them. What do I mean? Take for instance this picture, circa 1987, of my bedroom. Note the distinct lack of tidiness or, for that matter consoles. That’s right my first taste of gaming may have come wrapped in faux wood paneling at the hands of the Atari 2600, but what made me a gamer for life was the time spent in my bedroom with this sweet-ass TRS-80 COCO. I spent my weekends and nights hanging out on BBSes, playing Armored Patrol, searching through stacks of floppies for my bootleg copy of Joust and taking turns texting through Zork with my older brother Drew. Sure, I had a kick-ass sunglass collection, a wall packed with illustrations copied out of D&D books and a letter jacket in “sports health”. But what really made me a die hard geek was the COCO and it’s liquid-fast 300 baud modem. Time to put up or shut up. Let’s see your roots.

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Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow – Belmont’s Inferno [Screens]

This new batch of screenshots, concept art, and enemy renders for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are lovely and all, but I can’t help but think the game could use a tie-in with a revered work of religious fiction. Now I am not calling Lords of Shadow a Dante’s Inferno clone, but protagonist Gabriel Belmont is a member of an elite group of holy knights, and a cross is a major part of his arsenal. He even has a wife named Marie who was murdered by a supernatural entity and is trapped for eternity in spirit form, guiding Gabriel on his quest to do bad things to bad things. I bet if we were to check issues of Reader’s Digest from say, the early 1300’s, we might find a short story from one D. Alighieri that’s a close match for the Lords of Shadow plot, perhaps with an editor’s note: needs more circles.

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Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Atari is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Missile Command this year, offering up one more playable version of the venerable city defense twitch game, this time online and totally free. Missile Command fans and the reader looking to lose a few hours to a quality Flash game should try out OMGPOP’s take on the tried and true gameplay, which adds online cooperative multiplayer and tower defense-like unit upgrades. Bosses, new graphics, a touch of curiously addictive something have all been added to the web version, a game that consumed the Kotaku staff for too long this afternoon. Maybe playing some free Missile Command will get you hyped up for Atari’s plans for a big screen adaptation . Maybe you’ll just save a planet. Your call. Missile Command [OMGPOP]

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Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Atari is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Missile Command this year, offering up one more playable version of the venerable city defense twitch game, this time online and totally free. Missile Command fans and the reader looking to lose a few hours to a quality Flash game should try out OMGPOP’s take on the tried and true gameplay, which adds online cooperative multiplayer and tower defense-like unit upgrades. Bosses, new graphics, a touch of curiously addictive something have all been added to the web version, a game that consumed the Kotaku staff for too long this afternoon. Maybe playing some free Missile Command will get you hyped up for Atari’s plans for a big screen adaptation . Maybe you’ll just save a planet. Your call. Missile Command [OMGPOP]

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Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Atari is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Missile Command this year, offering up one more playable version of the venerable city defense twitch game, this time online and totally free. Missile Command fans and the reader looking to lose a few hours to a quality Flash game should try out OMGPOP’s take on the tried and true gameplay, which adds online cooperative multiplayer and tower defense-like unit upgrades. Bosses, new graphics, a touch of curiously addictive something have all been added to the web version, a game that consumed the Kotaku staff for too long this afternoon. Maybe playing some free Missile Command will get you hyped up for Atari’s plans for a big screen adaptation . Maybe you’ll just save a planet. Your call. Missile Command [OMGPOP]

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Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Missile Command Turns 30, Gets Remixed For Multiplayer [Hot Flashes]

Atari is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Missile Command this year, offering up one more playable version of the venerable city defense twitch game, this time online and totally free. Missile Command fans and the reader looking to lose a few hours to a quality Flash game should try out OMGPOP’s take on the tried and true gameplay, which adds online cooperative multiplayer and tower defense-like unit upgrades. Bosses, new graphics, a touch of curiously addictive something have all been added to the web version, a game that consumed the Kotaku staff for too long this afternoon. Maybe playing some free Missile Command will get you hyped up for Atari’s plans for a big screen adaptation . Maybe you’ll just save a planet. Your call. Missile Command [OMGPOP]

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Sell Your Crap in the Classifieds [Night Note]

To: Luke From: Owen I don’t know when he got it, but my packrat brother Fletch stole a firetruck red easy chair recliner from the downstairs of our old home and, as far as I know, hasn’t gotten it reupholstered. If it’s the same one I remember, that thing was like sitting on the lap of a mangy Santa Claus. For some reason Fletch discovered that above, on a newspaper wedged into the innards of the recliner. This paper is from 1974. So, not only are we talking about a porta-potty before there were porta-pottys as we know them, it was also “home made.” And going for $90 in 1974, which adjusted for inflation is probably $250 now. This must have been one hell of a crapper. Some highlights this weekend: What’s On Deck For MLB 10 The Show Weekend Reader: Games, My Guardian Angel Police Seek Woman Who Seduced Teen via PlayStation Home Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Conversation Hearts Edition Winners Stick Jockey: Imaginary Triumphs: Sports As A Role-Playing Game Link ‘N Launch Micro-Review: How About ‘Pikmin Rockets’ Or ‘Better Than Bioshock Hacking’?

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